Maiorana-McFarland class: Degree optimization and algebraic properties

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4581-4594

  Pasalic, Enes ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Algebraic degree; Algebraic immunity; Boolean function; Nonlinearity; Rectorial Boolean function; Resiliency

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; NONLINEAR FILTERING; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

ALGEBRAIC DEGREE; ALGEBRAIC IMMUNITY; RECTORIAL BOOLEAN FUNCTION; RESILIENCY;

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS;

EID: 33947416944     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2006.881721     Document Type: Article

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